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S. 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By surface analysis, nose + -le (frequentative). Modern affectionate, intimate sense 1590s, possibly influenced by nestle or nursle (frequentative of nurse).", "forms": [ { "form": "nuzzles", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "nuzzling", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "nuzzled", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "nuzzled", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "nuzzle (third-person singular simple present nuzzles, present participle nuzzling, simple past and past participle nuzzled)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "hyphenation": [ "nuz‧zle" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "nursle" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English intransitive verbs", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples", "English transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "The horse nuzzled its foal’s head gently to wake him up.", "type": "example" }, { "text": "The bird nuzzled up to the wires of the cage.", "type": "example" }, { "text": "She nuzzled her boyfriend in the cinema.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2010, Jennifer Egan, “Selling the General”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad", "text": "Within a couple of hours, pictures of General B nuzzling Kitty Jackson were being posted and traded on the Web.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "(of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose." ], "links": [ [ "transitive", "transitive" ], [ "intransitive", "intransitive" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, intransitive) (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose." ], "tags": [ "intransitive", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses" ], "glosses": [ "To nurse; to foster; to bring up." ], "links": [ [ "nurse", "nurse" ], [ "foster", "foster" ], [ "bring up", "bring up" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) To nurse; to foster; to bring up." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses" ], "glosses": [ "To nestle; to house, as in a nest." ], "links": [ [ "nestle", "nestle" ], [ "house", "house" ], [ "nest", "nest" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) To nestle; to house, as in a nest." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1951 October, R. 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